[Realpoetik] Daniela Olszewska

[RealPoetik Magazine]

*The House That Jane Built*



The house that Jane built:

lick-able wallpapers and edible floors.



The color scheme is chartreuse.

As in, the evolution of.

As in, the reptilian brain.



The bathrooms are anesthetic-lite

with tastefully clawed tubs.



Halved by prisms, the multiple

staircases articulate their discomfort.

Like the creaking of recently made ghosts.



There is a frequent unraveling

of royal standards.  Sky window spacing:



a fine view of the piñata clouds.

The living room full of potted orchids

exhaling ever so rapidly.



The practice of husbandry in trilogy form.

Conveyor belts transfer



mixed/battered/frozen

drinks/mushrooms/raspberries

to the porch/study/bedroom.



The proprietress pacing her attic floor

Down into isosceles triangle pattern.


*Daniela Olszewska** *was born in Wrocław, Poland and raised in the area
known as Chicagoland. Poetry-related activities include serving on the
editorial board of *Columbia Poetry Review* (volumes 19 and 20) and acting
as Deputy-at-Large for Switchback Books <http://www.switchbackbooks.com/>.
Her chapbook is called *The Partial Autobiography of Jane Doe* (dancing girl
press <http://www.dancinggirlpress.com/>, 2008).

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